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Conservatives who have been briefed on the plan say that the founders hope to eventually eclipse the budget of the MoveOn organizations and are raising money to be in business for 25 years or more. The group will be based in the Washington area and will probably open an office in late fall or winter.

The new group will focus on generational issues that cannot be solved in any single election cycle, the Republicans said. Among the focuses will be the war on terror and confronting radical Islam, the Republicans said.

The group will be an umbrella for organizations incorporated under both the 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 sections of the tax code. Both entities are tax-exempt and nonprofit.

Donations to entities of the first type — which are considered educational — are tax deductible and therefore easier to raise. Donations to 501(c)4 entities — which are issues-based and allowed more lobbying expenses and direct involvement in political campaigns — are not deductible.

Blakeman would not disclose the name of the group or the amount it has raised. He recently left his post as a director of Park Strategies Washington Group LLC to work full time on the new enterprise.

At the White House, Blakeman was deputy assistant to the president for appointments and scheduling. He was a volunteer lead advance representative in the Reagan administration and for President George H.W. Bush, and in 1990 he was appointed the youngest member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. He was also a vice president of the lobbying firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers LLC.

After leaving the White House, Rogich was ambassador to his native Iceland. He had been director of advertising for the Bush-Quayle ’88 campaign, working with Roger Ailes. Rogich was also a member of President Reagan’s famed Tuesday Team of reelection ad makers.

Rogich, who was a Pioneer, or major fundraiser, for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, declined to comment about the new venture.

GOP hopes to counterbalance an 8-year-old seasoned, computerized, well-established populist juggernaut with nearly 4 million people overnight, and in time for the 2008 elections? Nevermind the fact that there has never been a winning rightist grassroots movement (why would there be? Republicans haaaaaaaaaaaaate the people . . except around elections).

And the final hilarity is that the Republican elitist approach to setting up this MoveOn-busting people-powered powerhouse is . . (wait for it) . . to buy it!

The missing piece in Republican plans is a Clinton/christ-like figure to rally around. Republicans need a scoundrel who's being prosecuted, that can be spun into a persecution. If Republicans are successful, could an "Internet Fairness Doctrine" be far behind? Deep down Democrats no doubt long for an equal opposing force, given their love of free speech and all.

Democrats like to cry Fairness Doctrine when any conservative voice pops up. Remember, there are at least 2 sides to every story. Liberal Democrats have already tried to get Rush Limbaugh and Neil Boortz and others off the air. It is amazing that alternative positions are not tolerable or tolerated to Democrats. So you just rally around your strident socialist candidate, and if that is the best you can present, then that is okay too. So Democrats, please move over, the Conservatives are coming. That is your signal to engage in misleading and false personal attacks on the right, argue even eloquently about issues that will seldom take the projected path and then further divide our nation. Ideas are dangerous, especially those of an economic, health care-meddling socialist. If that is what you want, then that is what you will get.

No, I like my virginity. I'm not in the habit of 'joining', or being spoon fed the party line. I am guilty of doing my infintestimal best during Bill Clinton's public emergence as a sexual predator. But there was nothing official about that. All the Republican Conspiracy talking points went to those with the ability to mind meld.

WELL THE GOP CAN'T HIDE ANY MORE THEY ARE THE K.K.K!!!!!! YESTERDAY THEY WON THE BATTLE ON WHO SHOULD GO TO WHITE SCHOOLS[NOT BLACK FOLKS]WAR-WAR-FIGHTING FOR AMERICA IS OUT!!!!BLACK FOLKS SHOULD NOT BE ASK TO FIGHT FOR A NATION THAT TREAT THEM LIKE SHIT.TO THE WORLD THIS AIN'T A BLACK MAN FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!SO COME AHEAD WELCOME

To you DummyCrats----- Yawn..zzzzzzzzzzzzzz Better pay attention to what happened in London too...Oh yeah, i forgot...the War on terror is a farce...Bush planned 9/11...the Republicans are taking away all of our freedoms...

"Islam is a religion of peace and if you don't believe me, I'll kill you"... Bernie Goldberg from his book....Crazies to the left of me..Wimps to the right....Read it and learn something...

Also, i hope you libs have your prayer rugs ready and your knees in shape for all that bowing to Mecca that you are gonna be doing....and remember....Allah Akhbar!!

Fellow Washingtonian..thenekkidtruth....Are you on the same story?? Or the same planet?? They catch their terrorist cuz they our serious about the war on terror...not like you loonie lefters that think it is a plot by President Bush....

TWOSHORT, you seem to be more intelligent than most blacks so why don't you apply for admission to Harvard and sue them if they turn you down because you are black. It must be painful for liberals to be forced to listen to talk radio and hear both sides of stories. The 95 percent liberal media and academia have already informed them of the "truth" so I'm sure it's confusing to say the least.

the whole, net, broadband, cable/sat issue presents a real conundrum for the Right. it has been my long held belief that the republican party stifles voter awareness on issues. in essence the less informed the electorate, particularly in republican demographics, the easier it is to shape the issues and disseminate their message. dumb-down is a tool of their national campaigns.

look at your red state, blue state maps. now google the following; broadband access in rural america; c-span access in rural america. the broadband divide between urban and rural america is about 24% to 39% nationally. the divide had been much more dramatic and lets all agree that the numbers are pretty dismal in any respect. c-span access while it is sanctioned under the fcc that all cable/sat providers carry basic c-span, in rural areas it is often interrupted during periods of the day, on shared channels. but rural america gets plenty of talk radio.

we have a space station soaring above our heads, we have bombs which use GPS, we have ships and planes that are nearly invisible to radar. why are we so lacking in broadband access in america and particularly rural america? in part the providers are to blame as they exist in market monopolies and with government assistance freeze out independents. government regulation stifles expansion of broadband and cable/sat access.

actually the progressives took to the net long before MoveOn...the republicans have resisted that move and are now about to be steam rolled. they have to get with the program or be left further behind. on the radio you tune into stations available in your area, on the net you go where you want to go. would more access in rural america dilute the republican message? yes. in general a more informed electorate is damaging to the republican party in its' current configuration.

J.Ortiz Location: Seattle, WA Party: Republican Reply #: 7 Date: Jun. 29, 2007 - 9:09 AM EST I hope they have raised a lot of $$$. The loonie left is running wild in this country...Moveon.org also known as terrorist sympathizers and haters of America. ________________________________________________ Mr/Mrs/Mz J. Ortiz, You state that left wing liberals are terrorist sympathizers? Hmmm, sounds like you view waaaay tooo much FoxNews. Liberal that I am, I served 8 years in the USMC and have my two sons currently fighting in both Iraq and Afghanistan. I will match your patriotism any day of any week of any month in any year. America is the greatest country on earth, even with the incompetent President we have in the White House. Are your children fighting the GWOT? $5 says your kids are not fighting this GWOT. Good luck to the GOP with this round of uber fund raising. They will need every penny to combat he ugly reality that voters have about the GOP. Have a groovy day!

Who's the fairyworld dweller, my friend? You can't name a single *real* terrorist Bush Manchild's ever caught. What, the scary Miami cell that wanted to bomb for boots? Whatever happened to that trial? - ooops, nevermind. Maybe Khalid Sheikh Mohamed who "confessed" to everything including the kidnapping of the Lindberg baby? But you weren't that easily fooled, were you, Jortiz? Jortiz?

You can hope to dissuade us that Bush Baby couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the bottom, but good luck with that. "War on Terror"? Don't make me laugh. A president with ethics and a sense of responsibility would get around to starting that "war" sometime soon..